§ MR. CONYBEARE(for Mr. JAMES STUART) (Shoreditch, Hoxton)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Treasury 1476 will extend to Civil Service Writers the privilege now enjoyed by boy clerks in competing amongst themselves for a limited number of vacancies in the examinations for Lower Division Clerkships?
§ THE SECRETARY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)Copyists, under the existing regulations, are allowed to deduct from their actual age, when competing for Lower Division Clerkships, any time not exceeding five years which they may have spent as registered copyists in the Civil Service. They have, therefore, already a great advantage over other competitors, and it is not considered desirable to give them the further privilege proposed by the hon. Member.